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As reported on SportsBetting Dime.com by Robert Linnehan, Gov. Roy Cooper (D), recently appearing on the Ovies + Giglio Show, discussed North Carolina’s sports betting future and publicly stated that his goal is to have sports betting launched in the state prior to the March Madness NCAA basketball tournament. “The goal is to get it out there before March Madness. No guarantee that that’s the case, but that is the goal,” Cooper told the sports talk hosts.

North Carolina gaming regulators have scrapped a proposed rule that would have restricted the use of affiliate marketers in sports-betting promotion.

Robert Linnehan, Regulatory Writer and Editor at XLMedia-owned Sports Betting
Dime, speaks with Trafficology about the recently launched ESPN Bet and what this
partnership means when reflecting the history of Penn’s sports betting apps.

For the first time in more than two years, sports betting is back in Florida. The Seminole Tribe’s mobile sports betting app re-launched to all Floridians this week. On Thursday, sports betting, roulette and other games have launched at the Seminole-owned casinos across the state. But multiple lawsuits could once again shutter sports betting in the state. The app, Hard Rock Bet, was re-named after a brief stint two years ago. Now, despite an ongoing lawsuit, WEAR News is told the Seminole Tribe had enough leeway to launch the app again. This time, they’re hoping its permanent.

Maryland online sports betting since it started in Nov. 2022 has drawn a predicted $4B in bets, but it also “raises questions about addressing the potential for more people developing an addiction to betting,” according to Hayes Gardner of the BALTIMORE SUN. With 15% of sportsbooks’ profits “going to the state,” sports betting is “expected to raise at least” $40M for public education in Maryland in its first year.

Once sequestered to the desert of Las Vegas, whispered about over pay phones, and deemed to be a threat to “the integrity of” football by the NFL’s commissioner, the practice of betting on sports has escaped ostracism and emerged as a ballyhooed favorite of sports leagues and fanatics.